Definition of Enterocoele

1. Noun. (anatomy) A perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth or outgrowths from the digestive tract. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Enterocoele

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Medical Definition of Enterocoele

1. A perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth or outgrowths from the digestive tract; distinguished from a schizocoele, which arises by a splitting of the mesoblast of the embryo. Origin: Gr. An intestine + a hollow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Enterocoele

enterochelin
enterocholecystostomy
enterocholecystotomy
enterochromaffin
enterochromaffin-like cells
enterochromaffin cells
enterocleisis
enteroclysis
enterococcaemia
enterococcal
enterococci
enterococcus
enterococcus faecalis
enterococcus faecium
enterocoel
enterocoele (current term)
enterocoeles
enterocoelic
enterocoelous
enterocoels
enterocolitic
enterocolitis
enterocolitises
enterocolostomy
enterocutaneous fistula
enterocyst
enterocystocele
enterocystoma
enterocyte
enterocytes

Literary usage of Enterocoele

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1895)
"Both of these arise in all Echinoderms as diverticula of the archenteron. We apply to them the names employed by LUDWIG, enterocoele and ..."

2. Structure and polarity of the electric motor nerve-cell in torpedoes by Ulric Dahlgren (1915)
"In Asterina (Bury, 1), while the anterior enterocoele is essentially a double ... The cavities of the anterior enterocoele at each side of the gut are ..."

3. A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1888)
"The ectoderm extends into and lines the gastric sac, while the interior of the colored hypoblast becomes excavated by a cavity, the enterocoele, ..."

4. Studies from the Morphological Laboratory in the University of Cambridge by Francis Maitland Balfour, Adam Sedgwick (1889)
"My results can be summed up as follows : 1. The adult body cavity comes entirely from pseudocode. The enterocoele has no part in its formation. 2. ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"... the second volume of his ' Treatise on Zoology,' which appeared last year ; and it has made serious inroads on the widely accepted enterocoele theory. ..."

6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"Hertwig and others have adopted, the hypothesis that the coelom of Vertebrates is an enterocoele, but hitherto, although special investigations have been ..."

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